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May 07, 2013 8:45 AM Why Biological Tests of Driving Impairment are Superior to Behavioral Performance Tests

Andrew Sullivan has had a series of posts recently about “driving while stoned” (Examples here, here and here). He and a number of the people he quotes argue that driving impairment from drug consumption does not correlate perfectly with biological...

By Keith Humphreys

April 22, 2013 9:51 AM How Americans Deal With Risk

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we tolerate risk here in the United States, after we literally shut down a major city last week to catch one man. I am in no way saying that it wasn’t an important...

By Aaron Carroll

April 05, 2013 1:05 PM Roger Ebert on Alcoholism and Recovery

Years ago, when I was researching Alcoholics Anonymous in Urbana, Illinois, I found out inadvertently that Roger Ebert was a member. I did not of course tell anyone until he told his own story publicly in 2009. As someone who...

By Keith Humphreys

March 25, 2013 11:00 AM How Rolling Rock Got Fancy

In a post about marijuana markets, I mentioned the disorienting experience of seeing affluent San Francisco hipsters who could afford much better brew nonetheless drinking Rolling Rock (a so-so working class beer produced about 70 miles from my hometown). I...

By Keith Humphreys

March 05, 2013 1:20 PM Don’t Drink and Negotiate

The U.S. ambassador for management and reform at the UN politely asked his colleagues to stop showing up drunk: As for the conduct of negotiations, Mr. Chairman, we make the modest proposal that the negotiating rooms should in future be an inebriation-free...

By Erik Voeten